Timothy R. Lubenow, MD

Below is a list of scientific publications for which this practitioner was either the primary author or a contributor. Citations come from PubMed, a database of biomedical literature, life science journals and online books. PubMed is a service of the US Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. Click on the title of the cited work for more information (this will take you directly to PubMed.gov). Listings go back five years.

1. Uncomplicated removal of epidural catheters in 4365 patients with international normalized ratio greater than 1.4 during initiation of warfarin therapy.
   Liu SS, Buvanendran A, Viscusi ER, Hutton E, Lubenow T, Zhou J, Shaw PM, Moric M, Lenart S.
   Reg Anesth Pain Med.
   2011 May-Jun
   36(3):231-5.
   
2. Evidence-based interventional pain medicine according to clinical diagnoses. 16. Complex regional pain syndrome
   van Eijs F, Stanton-Hicks M, Van Zundert J, Faber CG, Lubenow TR, Mekhail N, van Kleef M, Huygen F
   Pain Pract
   2011 Jan-Feb
   11(1):70-87. doi: 10.1111/j.1533-2500.2010.00388.x
   
3. Regarding Bell and Moore, intravenous ketamine for CRPS: making too much of too little? Pain 2010;150:10-11
   Kirkpatrick AF, Lubenow T
   Pain
   2010 Nov
   151(2):556; author reply 556-7
   
4. Development of a severity score for CRPS
   Harden RN, Bruehl S, Perez RS, Birklein F, Marinus J, Maihofner C, Lubenow T, Buvanendran A, Mackey S, Graciosa J, Mogilevski M, Ramsden C, Schlereth T, Chont M, Vatine JJ
   Pain
   2010 Dec
   151(3):870-6
   
5. Validation of proposed diagnostic criteria (the "Budapest Criteria") for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
   Harden RN, Bruehl S, Perez RS, Birklein F, Marinus J, Maihofner C, Lubenow T, Buvanendran A, Mackey S, Graciosa J, Mogilevski M, Ramsden C, Chont M, Vatine JJ
   Pain
   2010 Aug
   150(2):268-74
   
6. Efficacy of transverse tripolar spinal cord stimulator for the relief of chronic low back pain from failed back surgery
   Buvanendran A, Lubenow TJ
   Pain Physician
   2008 May-Jun
   11(3):333-8
   

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• Some of the things I do as an anesthesiologist — in terms of alleviating pain in the operating room — I also do in my practice as a pain medicine physician to alleviate pain for patients who have chronic back or neck pain.

  Spinal cord stimulation is a nerve stimulator implant to control pain. So the type of device that I put in today is so much more sophisticated than the one that I implanted back in the late 1980’s. It’s a very flexible dynamic type of treatment that patients can use themselves to turn up stimulation to produce better pain relief.

  Another thing that I do for patients is that I implant infusion pumps that deliver morphine medicine, or other types of pain medicine, by the spinal fluid to produce pain relief. It has dramatic results to the point patients are able to stand up and walk, able to carry on many of their activities of daily living that they couldn’t do before.